Dr. Karen Wilson
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835 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard Apr 2025
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And everybody said that he was fine or he'd grow out of it or she's just a girl.
And I just thought if I can help more people get the support they need sooner and better understand
You know, neurodiverse.
profiles and learning challenges and how we can help, then that's what I want to do.
So that's when the podcast was born and a lot of that was inspired by your work at Debbie and in providing that outreach and support to parents.
Right.
And so a diagnosis is when
The struggles that a child is experiencing or the behaviors that they're exhibiting.
Are significant enough to interfere with
with their functioning, either at school, at home, in with their social interactions.
And depending on what the diagnosis is, they have to have a certain amount of symptoms, they have to be
persist in is oftentimes two or more environments and it really has to negatively impact functioning.
Their ability to access their curriculum at school, their ability to make friends, keep friends.
their ability to demonstrate what it is that they know.
And so that is when you get a diagnosis like ADHD or dyslexia or dysgraphia or autism spectrum disorder.
So that's a diagnosis.
I think people are afraid of labels.
I think that's usually one of the things that keeps parents from sharing that information with their kids is that married parents are afraid that when you're labeling a child, that that child will be less willing to try.
That it'll become a self fulfilling prophecy.
They'll bl they'll say, Well, I can't do that because I have ADHD, or you know, I can't read because I have dyslexia.
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